and caesar cha veses, of course, a leading voice of farm workers, but really a leading voice of america. >> so were these books bestsellers in their time? >> many of them were, and actually many of them continue to be and have not gone out of print. so even though that wasn't a specific criteria, so many of them have been translated and carried american ideals across the world. >> now, i want to ask you about one other specific book, and that was emily dickenson's book of poetry. >> oh. well, of course, emily dickenson is a must-have american poet. but the particular book that we have here in the show is an -- [inaudible] book. it's done by a cooperative in cuba, and they have reproduced the book of poetry, and they have also made a facsimile of her house and a little tree. and it is made out of recycled material. emily dickenson, of course, is a phenomenal poet, but we really didn't know about her or discover her until the mid 1950s when we finally were able to see her poems or read her poems and love her poems unedited and in the way she had written them. >> who was doing the editing?